Improvement in washing compounds or fluids



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. WILLIAMS, or MIDDLETOWLN, DELAWARE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING COMPOUNDS OR FLUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,132, dated Jaruary26,1875; application flied May 2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. WILLIAMS, ofMiddletown, in the county of New Castle new and useful Improvements andState of Delaware, have invented certain in Washing Compounds or Fluids;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to.which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a washing compound of soda, lime,sp'irits of'hartshorn alcohol, and

of the spirits of hartshorn, and one (1) spoonful of alcohol.

The clothes to be washed should be soaked over night, or at leastseveral ho urs, rubbed a little, wrung out of the water in which theyhave been soaked, and thoroughly soaped. To each gallon of water in thewash-boiler is added, before thewater is heated, two (2) table-spoonfulsof the compound fluid, and the water is stirred till the compound isthorough ly mixed with it, and while the water ,is cool the clothes areplaced in the boiler, and then boiled," and occasionally stirred forfifteen minutes, by which process, with a little rubbing and the properrinsing, they are thoroughly cleansed.

A soap, used in combination with the compound fluid, as hereinafterdescribed, is made byadding two (2) pounds of g rease to one (1) quartof the compound fluid, which are boilegl and stirred together till 6the'proper consistency.

they thicken The compound fluid, in combination with the above-describedsoap, is used for .cleausing machinists f waste in the followin manner:To four (4) gallons of cold water in a wash-boiler add about one (1)quart of the compound fluid, and stir till the compeunu is'thorcughlymixed wit h the water,

. and in which, while the water is cool, place about four (4) pounds ofthe waste to be cleansed. Boil these together about twenty (20) minutes,and then pour oil the liquid from the waste, and add to the waste thesame quantities of cold water and compound fluid, and boil them. againabout twenty (20) minutes. Then remove the waste from the liq uid, andsoap it well with the soap made as above specified, and wash it throughtwo waters, using the soap freely in the second as well as the .firstwashing. After the wasteis thus washed, soap it well again with the samesoap, and boil itagain as before, and then rinse it thoroughly, and itis ready to be hung out'to dry, and. it will be-as clean as new waste.

The compound fluid, made of the same ingradients, but ofincreasedquantities, so as to increase its strength, isused for cleansing paintedand varnished surfaces, and for re moving paint and varnish from woodenor other surfaces. In making the fluid for these purposes the quantitiesof all of theingredients, except the water, are doubled, and they areboiled somewhat lon'ger. For example: Two (2) pounds of washing-soda andone 1) pound ofquicklime are added to one (1) gallon of water, and areboiled about twenty (20) minute's, and to each gallon of the liquiddrained'olf, as before described, is added two (2) table-spoonfuls ofthe spirits of hartshorn, and two (2) table spoonfuls of alcohol.

To remove old paint or varnish, this com pound is applied boiling hot,and rubbed oil with a rough linen cloth. To cleanse painted andvarnished surfaces, the same fluid is applied hot, and immediatelyrinsed oil with cold water.

The compound fluid maybe used fordestroy' ing insects on fruit an'dshadetrees. To prepare for this, thedirtis removed from the surface of therootsjof the trees, and, after the surfaces of the roots are somewhatdried by several days exposure to the air, the-trunk and roots arethoroughly washed with the fluid.

I am aware that the above-named ingrediehts have been used, with othermaterials in by Letters Patent, is-

soaps and washing-fluids; and I claim them Ir: testimony that I claimthe foregoing as only in the compound combination ahdpromy own inggntipnI ajix my signature in prescesses herein specificallynamed anddescribed. enmmr'vW: "vimuese-es.

What I clann as new, and deslre to secure hll 1. The compound fluid madeby employing WM, S; x WILLIAMS.

the materials in the quantities substantially as desmbed' "Witnesses: I

2. The combmatlon of the fluld with the soap, both made of the materialsin the quan- DE Wrrr O. WALER,

tities eubtantially as described. I E. M. HANSON.

